[TheForge] Safety concerns - zinc

[gblacksmith]

Ron:  Did he become ill after a single exposure?   Grant
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From: "Dan Tull" <dantull at numail.org>
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Safety concerns - zinc


> Also, don't use pressure treated for spoon swage( hot metal) as it has 
> arsenic in it.
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> From: "Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
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> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 2:46 AM
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>> We are all worried about Jim, a great hearted smith.
>> Let's add paint or plating that has cadmium or lead in it to the don't 
>> burn list...that's most older stuff that was painted for exterior 
>> use..that stuff has a less immediate but more lasting consequences. Most 
>> all of it is cumulative.
>>  Sorry, I make a funny looking Jewish mother...Pete F
>>
>> Ron Childers wrote:
>>> Bill keeps us in *stiches* with tails of his misadventures but something
>>> happened recently to a friend of mine that is "deadly" serious.
>>>
>>> We have all burned the zinc off galvanized metal and gotten away with it
>>> with no apparent ill effects. Jim Wilson, however, was inside a closed 
>>> shop,
>>> burning it off with a torch- he knew better; in fact, he sent his helper 
>>> out
>>> of the shop because he knew it was dangerous. We like to think we are
>>> indestructible, but the fumes caused (metal fume fever?) and Jim is now 
>>> in
>>> the hospital in intensive care and gravely ill. I know he would not mind 
>>> my publishing the story as a warning to avoid
>>> breathing the fumes from burning or welding galvanized metal.
>>>
>>> Ron Childers
>>>
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